Improvement in scales for weighing ice



T. T. FOWLER.

Scales for Weighing Ice.

No. 56.547. Patented July 24, 1866.

7W Hm c' E C@ wumllll'ly MUM Q UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TALBOT T. FOWLER, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 56,547, dated July 24, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TALBOT T. FowLEE, of Washington city, of the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attaching Scales for Weighing Ice; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The object of my invention consists in the application of a certain description of scales, to be hereinafter described, to the inner or outer side of the wagon containing the ice.

Considerable trouble is experienced from the ordinary spring-scales that are now in useon ice-wagons, and much delay caused in adjustin g and weighing` the quantities of ice delivered.

The scales herein described are not only applicable to all or any of' the wagons now in common use, but save time, trouble, and labor, and at the same time will be found Very economical from the mode of application and unlikelihood of breaking or getting out of repair, it being an established fact with ice-merchants that the scales now used need much repairing, and often replenishing, which are attended with no little expense.

In the drawing hereto annexed and forming a part ofA this specification, A represents the inner side of the ice-wagon to which the scales are attached. B represents an ordinary scale-beam, which is provided with a weight, C, and regulating-screw D at the rear end. This scale-beam B is of metal, and has a graduated scale of figures upon both or either face of the same.

G is a sliding P, which encircles the scalebeam and denotes the number of pounds or parts of pounds that are being weighed.

A short distance beneath the scale-beam B is the weight-beam E, which is also of metal, and constructed usually heavier or broader at the forward end than at the latter. This beam E is connected to the scale-beam B by means of links, to be hereinafter set forth.

F represents the sliding bar. This bar can be of wood or metal; but wood is preferred on account of it answering the necessary purposes and being much lighter than metal. This bar is slightly longer than the scalebeam B, and is attached to the ice-wagon A a short distance above the beam B by means of the keepers H H. This bar has an opening at the forward end to slide it back and forth' in the keepers, and is notched, as seen at fr, to prevent it from sliding when it is not desired so to do.

I represents the link which connects the bar F to the weight-beam E, said link heilig provided with an opening, wherein rests or hangs the crooked end of the front of the scale-beam B. mis a smaller link, made similar to the lilik I, and connects the bar F and scale-beam B just forward of the rear end of said beam, and where the weight C is attached. u is another link, which connects the scale-beam B and the weight-beam E. This link n is adjusted beneath and near the link m and to the end of the weight-beam E.

K represents a hook of any ordinary description, and which is fastened near the front end of the beam F. The ice or thing to be weighed is attached to this hook in any of the ordinary or known way s.

It will readily be seen that depression on the hook K will throw the iront end of the scalebeam upward or out of balance, and the sliding P, being drawn forward upon said beam, will balance the scale-beam and denote the number of pounds.

In the use of this invention the ice is generally weighed at the back end of the wagon,while the bar F is drawn out, carrying with it the entire scale for that purpose. Then not in use the bar F is pushed back and the scale is within the wagon and out of the road.

By means of the links I, m, and a these scales will weigh as well when the wagon is on an inclined plane as it does when the same is on level ground.

I do not claim the entire scales as new; but

lhat I do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The links I, m, and a, when connecting the bar F, the scale-beam B, and 'weight-beam E, arranged substantially as and for the purposes specified.

As evidence that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

TALBOT T. FOWLER.

Witnesses (1H. ALEXANDER, J. M. MASON. 

